Wesley Bishop was helping out a friend by letting Emmie stay with him. He knew she wasn't his mate, but she was good company. Emmie was hiding from her abusive brothers. When she asked Wesley to take her to the bank, she was meeting her best friend Penny and Penny's grandfather, Joe, to go over their accounts, Wesley readily agreed.

Wesley thought Penny was about the prettiest woman he'd ever seen—feisty too, and when her scent hit him like a freight train, he was the happiest tiger shifter on the planet.

Penny, not so much. Like Emmie, Penny's family had a way of getting their point across with a heavy fist. Trusting a man wasn't easy for her.

Wesley was no quitter; he'd convince his new mate to trust him if it was the last thing he did. And keeping her safe was proving to be more difficult by the day.